"Someone has written here, that it woud be nice, if he could command blender only with mouse. I hope, that will never happen, simply because commanding with mouse is always much slower, than with keyboard."

That someone was me and you just proved my point. I'm not trying to change the way you use blender. I can't work this way long enough to ever get good at it. I don't code, script, blog or do any other keyboard+mouse activity if I can avoid it. Yes, I know how to spell and write, and I'm also typing this (though not simultaneously using my mouse to do it). You don't type a picture, you paint one. The mouse is simply a better brush/chisel/spraycan/knife than a keyboard can be, which is why blender does occasionally need me to use it. Also, it is not only 8 or 10 key commands, there appear to be several dozen which change depending on the mode of operation. Why don't all of these key commands deserve buttons, like Truespace, or menu commands like Wings (which only requires I learn 3 keys and puts them within reach of one finger)? Why even have buttons at all then if they are so cumbersome? Commanding with mouse is always much slower for you maybe, but I'm glad it's not still 1983.

There's a reason that this is usually the first AND last thing people complain about blender for. Either you hate it so bad you move on forever, or you don't care and find it works. It should work. It just shouldn't have to work only one way.

I've used Lightwave extensively, and MAX for some time, I can appreciate how the two interfaces were created under wildly different philosophies. Lightwave, much like Blender, is geared towards workflow in the sense that almost every option is available through a combination of keystrokes. Functions are well-organized and sepatabs that span all of its control surfaces. MAX? Good tools, but their cluttered interface put me off quite a bit. Most of the time you have to click and click and click through stacks and icon buttons that try to be intuitive but don't quite make it.

Well, you can't expect a 3D app to be intuitive. This is a truism from the early days of 3d graphics when we were all happily rendering Phong spheres in POVray with our 386s. There are just too many concepts and functions to master. I do think Blender's on the right track by dropping this false pretense and just letting you work. It's a unique interface in many ways, too: it's more consistent through platforms that any other I've seen, it's zoomable, its layout is completely configurable. Improvable? Sure, like everything in this world.

The other day my coworkers (one of them a software developer, the other a graphic designer, both very competent in their fields) saw me zoom into a ramp panel to add color stops with more precision. Mouths agape, they commented, "dude, that's the future of interface design!" I felt myself swell with community pride: Blender does score points for innovation. If it is to change, I hope it's to improve on its own design philosophy, not to follow the fallacious objective of being "intuitive" (as in "you don't need to follow tutorials") but to provide a design where dependent functions are closer.

Peace! :)
Thank for the developers of blender for there great work!
ps.: Sorry for my english :)

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